Mustafa Badreddine

Mustafa Badreddine (6 April 1961-10 May 2016) was a military leader of Hezbollah and the cousin and brother-in-law Imad Mughniyah.

Biography
Mustafa Badreddine was born on 6 April 1961 in Beirut, Lebanon to a Shia Muslim family, and he joined Fatah's Force 17 before the 1982 Lebanese Civil War broke out. Along with his cousin Imad Mughniyah, Badreddine made bombs for the Hezbollah terrorist group, and he was both a member of the shura council and the leader of the overseas operations unit. Badreddine planned the 1983 Kuwait bombings, which killed 5 and wounded 86; the low amount of deaths were due to faulty rigging of the bombs. He was arrested, leading to some foreigners being arrested; he escaped from prison in 1990 during the Gulf War, fleeing to Iran before the IRGC returned him to Beirut. In 2005, he was one of the men behind Rafic Hariri's murder in a car bombing. Badreddine and Hezbollah both fought in the Syrian Civil War in the 2010s, and on 10 May 2016 he was killed in an Israeli Air Force airstrike near the Damascus International Airport.